| Welcome to the art room! |  |  | | First grade student learning about warm and cool colors. |
Students will visit the art room everyday for two calendar weeks, then switch with the physical education class. Each class is 50 minutes in length.
First grade students start their learning with the Elements and Principles of Art. Each unit of study focuses on how art effects the students in relation to their world. They discuss the differences in art work from many cultures and places. Each lesson allows the students to start to explore different medium and techniques.
The second through  | | Fifth grade students showing the fun side of placing tiles. |
sixth grade students in the art room they begin their year reviewing the Elements of Art. This year they selected one of the of Art to illustrate. This illustration would be used as an example for the younger first grade students as they begin to learn their units of study.
Once complete, the students started learning about art throughout history, beginning with Cave Art. As the students learn about different time periods, they take a look around the world and see how art effects different .
Each grade  | | Guest artist, John Acosta, working with our fourth grade students. |
level will stop ten to fifteen times throughout history to learn about these time periods and will be given an assignment to complete. The basic requirements are given, while the students help to create the rubric for grading their art work.
Galtier has been fortunate enough to have brought in two Artists in Residence to help the students get a more in-depth focus on certain techniques. Here we have John Acosta, from COMPAS, working with our fourth and fifth grade students learn about mosaic tile work.
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